"We might do something amusing tomorrow," Ahmet said.
Above all, the brain's perception of time involves processes linked to memory and attention: witness the impression that time is passing more quickly when we are busy, or doing something amusing or exciting.
"My father said, 'If you have the misfortune to be born into a generation which must earn its living, you might as well do something amusing.' " So has the award changed his life?
Here is Olly Murs telling you to grow up; this despite the fact he has the look of a giant toddler who'd go viral for doing something faintly amusing in the backseat of a car, then become an i100 article.
But he's has done something much more useful and interesting than simply providing an amusing way to find out that "password" has been used as a password more than 3.3 million times in this database.
Kevin Kline, who played a goatish older literary gent in "Definitely, Maybe," does something similarly mischievous and amusing as Adam's father, a louche former sitcom star who takes up with his son's ex-girlfriend (Ophelia Lovibond).
But you have to "do" something whether you're the host or the guest, either be amusing or try to be amusing, and doing nothing just doesn't jibe with goals and intentions.
Then suddenly you would do something that you thought was terrible, and she would find it amusing or forgivable.
The bottom line: You gave in to your instincts, did something without thinking about it too much, and probably have a reasonably amusing story to tell about it.
Do something scary, such as a vinyl monster that looks like he is sitting in your backseat, or something amusing like a pirate theme with treasures and swords on display.
